yeah, that's why I suggested possibly adding something to Makefile that
would hold the whole package name, but that wouldn't be a small undertaking
:\

Ok, assuming that the only way to get it is from make, anybody wanna help me
with a C code routine to run make to get the var? :-)

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:14:22AM +0900, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> > I think I wasn't clear enough when I said I wanted the full package name,
> > see the way I'm getting the info from Makefile is by simply extracting the
> > line, so if I just pulled PKGNAME, I would end up with things like this:
> > perl-${PERL5_VERS}
> > 
> > What I need is the full name (perl-5.6.1nb6), and I would love it if there
> > were a way for me to get that out of the Makefile without having to call any
> > intervening programs. I can already get the package name easily out of
> > /var/db/pkg/*, but comparing it to the version in the pkgsrc directories is
> 
> I think that there is no way to get the full package name out of the
> Pkgsrc source tree except using make(1).
> 
> Regards,
> Masao

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